But how can these fat construction workers/realtors/mortgage guys pay for it if the housing economy is shit? Damn, this is a whole microcosm if our economic woes right here!

Because a drywaller is making 150k a year while the arts major is unemployed.

Excuse me. I’m an arts double major. Some of us are doing fine

Me too...oh wait I am currently unemployed.

But it's by choice!

lol

dat privilege :sweetjesus:

drywallers these days, really?! i wake up to this and contemplating life choices again FeelsBadMan

when i was working admin as the lowest guy in the construction office totem pole, i'd have to deal with payroll on a large site. seeing what sparkies made made me think wtf did i do with my life to get an engineering degree (and student debt) :lol

but then again if i went trades i'd probably lose a finger or two :lawl:

you got an engineering degree and youre doing this shit?!?!?!

this is why you should never listen to insane ramblings of asian parents. go be lawyer, go be doctor, go be engineer.

no you clowns ... those all require actual fucking work.

And critical thinking. :fuckthatshit:

Meanwhile me w/ history degree. me bad want money nao.


ooooh he card read good.

in management now and still make less than that drywaller :lol

:okay:


i need a cushy port management job, hook me up!

u card read good?

Jobs like dry walling are like farming though, you get out what you put in.

Personally I’d rather be zoning out and “working from home” lol

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on a serious note, engineering is a bit of a catch 22. rare are those jobs you grad and get a great salary unless it's in government with an EIT program.

most will start at the bottom doing grunt work, learn the industry, and in the lower mainland b/c of saturation, will pay 30%+ less. you can get a better job moving to less desirable/boonies areas. i assume it's still like this now.

like choosing a degree, i'd argue choosing the right discipline helps. when i had a random office job to pay back loans coincidentally a coworker was a new grad in aerospace engineering. sounds really cool right? imagine how limiting career options are in canada? i could probably count the firms that i know of on 1 hand.

likewise a classmate specialized in power, right out the get go hydro was hiring and boom, great job/career as it was very in demand.

a lot of times it's timing of industries as well unfortunately. my friends that graduated around the .com bubble bursting and telecom crashing that specialized in telecom, gg for them... i remember one of the asshole profs was "laughing" at them sarcastically telling them 'good luck'

a lot of it is really just career counselling and building a career path. we didn't get a lot of that in the past and i didn't have any mentors until much later in my career (old school you're on your own sink or swim attitude).

haha ya the last decade or so i'm starting to appreciate and understand work life balance/mental health is something you can't put a price tag on

drywalling is one of the worst jobs thats why it pays so much.
i hired a few drywallers to do general labour for me before. way less pay but they didn't care.

The guys who do residential towers make $$$$ because it’s all by how much board you toss up. When I worked at Trump tower some of these guys were a total 1 man operation because they didn’t want to split the pay with a helper etc. guys would board entire common areas in a day or two

or you teach the kid you hired and they open their own company and undercut your ass

sounds like steel rebar guys, bid to get the job, do the parkade (where the most structural steel is used), once parkade is done, crap out & get fired or go under :troll: jkjkjk

after the olympics and work stalled. i remember several lead hands (good guys) left and started their own small company, 1 man show or a couple of guys. got a lot of experience off the large/complex project we finished and with big jobs stalled decided it was better to leave and do their own thing.

correct, all piece work and only piece work to make that money and more

Yeah it's kind of unfortunate in engineering, how drastically your experience will vary just based on specialization vs geography & market conditions.

One would argue that you don't have to choose until the end of 1st year (not that you'd know much better by then), but even that's not really true. Your choice of school already limits you to a subset of disciplines.

Compounding on this, your luck & timing w/ co-op & first job out of school: the severe consequences on opportunities that this has on the entire rest of your career. It's savage.

There really needs to be an effort to get people in industry to visit schools and tell the kids how it really is out there. Even to tell them what questions to be asking themselves.

But we need more gender studies and drug counselors :joy::troll:

Trump puts 35% tariffs for Canada, this might spook buyers/sellers. Uncertainty is never good..

The sky might be blue tomorrow

:facepalm:

Check out the pricing of this mcmansion.

https://i.ibb.co/RpYVSgVq/HOUSE.png

It's on sale for less than $500 a sqft.

just all rumors...
my asian realtor says this too but highly unlikely. Why would I sleep with someone in HOPES to get a listing that may or may not sell.
Heck, why not just be a side piece and earn rollling watches, meals, purses on-going than only doing a 1 time deal of closing at 20-30k commission.